Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, German 1808-1894- Views of the interior of the Colosseum, Rome; the first pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white on paper, the second pencil on paper, the first 33 x 54.5 cm., the second 35 x 54.5...

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, German 1808-1894- Views of the interior of the Colosseum, Rome; the first pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white on paper, the second pencil on paper, the first 33 x 54.5 cm., the second 35 x 54.5 cm., together a double-sided sketch by the artist, the recto signed and dated 'C. Werner. f 1848', and a further landscape study, four (4). Provenance: With Vangelli Gallery, London. Note: The present work, executed in c.1850, depicts the sermon given by a Capuchin friar inside the Colosseum, from an eighteenth-century wooden pulpit, in the presence of pilgrims in Ciociarian costume. The second work is a preparatory study for the setting of the first, and shows the Flavian Amphitheatre as it was prior to the excavation of its basement. Apparent in the sketch are the 'aediculae' of the stations of the 'Via Crucis', erected in 1744, blessed by Pope Benedict XIV in 1750, and then later removed in 1874. The third sketch is a study of a seated man in Renaissance costume and is inscribed 'Studie for the picture of the Poor Man Sir Frances Scott's' with a sketch on the reverse of a seated woman at her dressing table. The fourth is traditionally identified as a preparatory study for the view from below the Villa del Vascello in Rome. The villa was heavily damaged during the 1849 siege of Rome. The drawing was presumably prepared for a watercolour, as suggested by the colour notations in the sheet, and was later engraved by Domenico Amici in 1858 as part of the series 'Vedute dall'assedio di Roma'.
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